Recaps

Henry Brown brought Abraham Whistler to meet Police Commissioner George Stacy and encountered Barbara Morse, an old acquaintance now working as a senior FBI agent. After a tense exchange over her organization’s past treatment of him, Henry introduced Whistler as a member of the newly established Potomac Legion, leaving George aware that the vampire hunters had official standing.

• Henry Brown and Abraham Whistler met George Stacy at police headquarters, where Barbara Morse was already visiting the commissioner.
• Barbara greeted Henry warmly, but he responded coldly and demanded compensation and an apology from her organization for its past treatment of him.
• Barbara argued that her organization had not been at fault and that she had helped Henry, but he said he still distrusted it.
• George Stacy changed the subject and asked Henry to identify Whistler.
• Henry introduced Whistler as a member of the Potomac Legion, and George recognized the legion as official certification for vampire hunters.

Abraham Whistler showed George Stacy a map of suspected Vampires and Werewolves in New York, giving the police commissioner a way to target an operation without resorting to harsh citywide inspections. The chapter left George with the offer of administrator access to control who could view the map.

• George Stacy welcomed Abraham Whistler, who explained that he wanted to work with the NYPD to hunt Vampires and Werewolves rather than serve as a military advisor elsewhere.
• Whistler showed George a map of suspected targets created by a mysterious hacker, explaining that about one in three entries could still be false positives and that people with little digital presence might be missed.
• George checked the map near his home and Police Headquarters, finding no familiar targets but remaining unable to rule out Vampires or Werewolves among the police force.
• George decided the map, combined with light-based screening equipment, could support a focused operation and avoid the harsh martial law and house-to-house inspections used in Europe.
• Whistler explained that approved users could access the map online and offered George administrator permissions to control access and prevent misuse.

Henry Brown denied creating the vampire map and explained how he had met Whistler, while Barbara Morse’s questioning strained their friendship. George Stacy discussed adapting the map to coordinate police and federal teams, but the map’s origins and approval still needed to be resolved.

• Barbara Morse suspected Henry Brown of creating the map, but he denied involvement and said he had only introduced Whistler to Chief Stacy.
• Henry explained that a friend had introduced him to Whistler after vampires targeted him while he worked at Stark Studios, and he refused to identify that friend.
• Barbara Morse’s persistent questions upset Henry, so George Stacy changed the subject to ESU cooperation with the FBI against vampires and werewolves.
• Henry said the map could possibly be adapted to show teams and targets, but suggested the police information security division handle the work rather than taking it on himself.
• George Stacy considered a simpler form-based system, while noting that officials still had to investigate the map’s origins and secure city council oversight before using it.

On February 13, 2004, the NYPD launched coordinated raids across New York City, killing hundreds of Vampires and Werewolves while avoiding European-style mass screening. The operation drove most surviving dark creatures toward suspected lairs, setting up a later assault.

• The United States prepared for its campaign against Vampires and Werewolves with ultraviolet lamps, Dr. Reed Richards’s Moon-Phase Instrument, and popular silver weapons.
• Commissioner George Stacy sent more than a hundred five-man tactical squads, including S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel, to raid listed targets across New York City.
• The squads killed 717 Vampires and 94 Werewolves, with no arrests and no Mutants mistakenly shot as dark creatures.
• George Stacy followed Abraham Whistler’s advice to target isolated creatures first, training police and pushing survivors toward their lairs.
• Most surviving Vampires and Werewolves gathered at several suspected lairs, while a few fled or hid among homeless people and in chaotic neighborhoods.

Henry watched news of ESU teams hunting Vampires and Werewolves while he and his contacts worked to locate the monsters’ hidden nests. At home, Skye accused a classmate of being a Vampire, and Henry scolded her for making the claim without proof.

• Henry watched reporters film an ESU team kill a Vampire and search a house for more monsters.
• Henry expected Vampires and Werewolves to adapt to the government’s purge, so his contacts used traditional methods to find their nests before the monsters went electronically silent.
• Henry learned that the High Table and hunters across North America had joined the campaign against Vampires and Werewolves.
• Catherine Hepburn asked Henry whether monsters lived among their neighbors, and he reassured her that the NYPD had not investigated their home.
• Skye claimed that Lilian, a girl at her school, was a Vampire who bullied her and Lorna, so Henry flicked her forehead and told her not to slander people.

Young American Vampires launched a nighttime attack on Gwen Stacy’s home, but Little Red detected them and alerted Henry. Henry activated the Leopard Type Mecha and prepared to attack the Vampires as they climbed the building toward Gwen’s apartment.

• Vampires and Werewolves retaliated against humans at night by targeting political and military figures and their families.
• A group of young Vampires drove to the Stacy home in Queens while George Stacy was away at the police department.
• Little Red detected the approaching Vampires, and the Spider-Mech called for support.
• Henry activated the Leopard Type Mecha and used C-Sis to scan the attackers while keeping firing authorization in his hands.
• The Vampires climbed the building’s exterior toward Gwen’s ninth-floor home, and Henry locked onto them and pressed the attack button.

Henry’s automated defenses killed the vampires attacking Gwen Stacy, while he monitored other supernatural attacks through a real-time map and helped C-Sis repel hackers. The nighttime hunt continued across New York, with Henry directing events from behind the scenes.

• The Duck Leopard armor—Leopard Type killed the vampires targeting Gwen Stacy with Ultraviolet Rounds while she slept, and Spider-Mech Little Red and the armor returned to standby.
• Henry considered but dismissed building an Arc Reactor because his undersea power plant and Kree High-Capacity Batteries already met his needs.
• Gwen woke to the noise from the vampires’ vans, while Henry watched her through the Leopard Type before she closed her curtains.
• Henry had C-Sis update a real-time map of vampire and werewolf teams, routes, and predicted targets so trusted groups could intercept them.
• Henry and C-Sis repelled hackers trying to trace or infiltrate the map webpages as supernatural attacks continued across New York.

New York’s Vampires and European refugees gathered under the Vampire Council as human retaliation pushed them toward extinction. The Council debated what the divided factions should do next, while rival clans waited for its decision.

• A Vampire reflected on how modern warfare and human retaliation had stripped Vampires of their former power and forced them out of New York.
• He pointed out that the Capulet Clan and Montague Clan were now sharing a hall peacefully while awaiting the Council’s decision.
• The Vampire Council convened to discuss the future of New York’s Vampires, bringing together local factions, European refugees, and a powerful Werewolf clan leader.
• The rival groups suppressed their mutual hostility and cooperated because the threat from outside had become too great.

Vampires debated where to flee and whether they could trust former allies, then realized the police had tracked their gathering to an estate. The estate’s owner prepared to defend the house as police cars approached.

• The Vampires rejected proposals to relocate to South America, Northern Europe, Australia, Africa, or Asia, and dismissed seeking a reservation through corporations such as Umbrella.
• A Vampire condemned Umbrella, the Assassin Brotherhood, Abstergo, the High Table, and Life Foundation for betraying them, while the group recalled that American officials among their ranks had been purged.
• A young Vampire argued that their main problem was being found, prompting the Vampires to suspect an informant and accuse possible defectors such as Henry, Sturgis, or Blade.
• A security guard reported to the estate’s clan leader that police cars were approaching, and the owner claimed the house’s shutters, secret passages, and traps would stop them.

George Stacy coordinated a massive joint operation by S.H.I.E.L.D., the FBI, and the NYPD to surround the Vampires’ and Werewolves’ final stronghold on Long Island. The agencies deferred to him as military and X-Men reinforcements arrived, leaving the operation ready to begin.

• George Stacy organized more than a hundred vehicles into routes that sealed off the mansion, and Nick Fury and the FBI director respected his command.
• The chapter explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. had previously failed to take over NYPD operations and now operated under the FBI’s banner in the joint mission.
• After George Stacy raised concerns about police casualties in the sewers, Gwen contacted General Thaddeus Ross through Betty Ross, who sent the experimental Octopus Unit to assist.
• The Octopus Unit’s nine soldiers had led NYPD ESU teams through the sewers and eliminated the Werewolf nests with virtually no losses.
• Nick Fury watched as the Octopus Unit’s veterans endured the procedure to mount their mechanical tentacles, hoping to use the technology against supernatural threats.
• George Stacy called in the X-Men as additional support, and the other agencies avoided challenging his authority.

George Stacy and the assembled agencies prepared to attack the manor until a mysterious webpage warned them that tritium had been delivered there and an explosion might be imminent. They evacuated the area and warned the approaching X-Men, leaving the threat unconfirmed as the countdown continued.

• George Stacy and the commanders of the police, S.H.I.E.L.D., and other organizations discussed how to attack the manor without a detailed map of its grounds.
• Barbara Morse showed Nick Fury a countdown on the mysterious map webpage, which soon ordered them to halt the attack and retreat one kilometer.
• The webpage warned that tritium recovered from Norman Osborn’s drone attack had been delivered to the manor and might cause an explosion.
• George Stacy and the other commanders ordered an immediate retreat and sent officers to evacuate people from nearby houses.
• George Stacy warned the X-Men over the radio not to land near the target, and they agreed to circle nearby while the evacuation continued.

The X-Men received orders to retreat from the Vampire and Werewolf stronghold after learning a nuclear weapon was headed there. Quicksilver left the Blackbird and found Henry, who revealed that he had planted a small nuclear bomb at the fortress and controlled its blast to limit damage to nearby homes.

• Professor X ordered the Blackbird to circle outside the safe radius after Jean Grey's scanners found no unidentified aircraft and the map showed a countdown at the target.
• Quicksilver phased out of the Blackbird and ran through the air toward nearby high ground, where he found Henry preparing a camera.
• Quicksilver guessed Henry had obtained the bomb materials from the tritium carried by the Goblin Glider and asked where they came from.
• Henry explained that he had used the tritium to make a timed nuclear bomb for the Vampire fortress and discussed the Tsar Bomba with Quicksilver.
• Henry assured Quicksilver that the blast yield was about nine tons of TNT, would primarily destroy the Vampires' house, and would not seriously damage nearby homes.

Henry explained that he used a small hydrogen bomb to deter anyone who might target Alexei, Selene, and Michael Corvin, then tested whether ordinary weapons could kill Vampires and Werewolves. The blast erased the manor, but Henry and Quicksilver had not yet learned whether anyone inside survived.

• Quicksilver questioned Henry about the nuclear test, and Henry explained that Alexei had returned from Europe with Selene and Michael Corvin, drawing dangerous attention.
• Henry argued that nuclear deterrence would make powerful people cautious about pursuing the Vampires and Werewolves’ secrets.
• Miss-D came online and delivered a deranged announcement through Quicksilver’s headset as Henry started recording.
• A birdlike device flew into the Vampires’ manor and detonated a small hydrogen bomb inside it.
• The blast destroyed the manor completely, and Henry told Quicksilver that he had wanted to test whether ordinary weapons could kill Vampires and Werewolves.

After a small hydrogen bomb destroyed the Vampires' residence, officials confirmed the blast site was safe and debated how Henry Brown had detonated the bomb so precisely. Nick Fury concluded S.H.I.E.L.D. could not safely treat Henry as an ordinary terrorist, and he forbade Phil Coulson from approaching him.

• A military expert reported that the blast site’s radiation levels were safe and that the explosion was consistent with a five-to-nine-ton hydrogen bomb detonated inside the building.
• Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel went to inspect the crater after the military lifted the cordon.
• Nick Fury told Phil Coulson that Henry Brown’s ability to detonate a bomb at a precise location made him a new kind of Superman and a threat S.H.I.E.L.D. could not yet arrest safely.
• Nick Fury explained that the only way to deal with Henry was to understand his method and bring him to negotiations.
• Phil Coulson offered to find Henry, but Nick Fury forbade him and warned that pursuing Henry would only provoke resentment.

Nick Fury ordered Natasha to investigate Red Guardian and sent Phil Coulson to seek Blade’s pardon and recruit him. After Coulson drove Peter Parker away from the bomb site, Fury discussed Peter’s unresolved revenge and ordered him placed on a watch list.

• Nick Fury told Phil Coulson that he wanted proof of Black Super’s identity made public, then called Natasha to prioritize investigating Red Guardian and the people behind him.
• Nick Fury ordered Phil Coulson to obtain Blade’s pardon and recruit him, citing Blade and Abraham Whistler as early sources of information about Black Super.
• Nick Fury spotted Peter Parker photographing the hydrogen bomb crater and sent Phil Coulson to make him leave while allowing him to keep his camera.
• Phil Coulson questioned Peter Parker, who identified himself as a Daily Bugle freelance photographer and asked about the Vampires and Werewolves; Peter then left when soldiers approached.
• Nick Fury explained that Peter was driven by revenge and ordered him placed on a watch list after discussing new evidence that Flint Marko had killed Peter’s uncle.

Henry met Alexei in a Brooklyn nightclub, where Alexei asked whether Henry could guarantee Selene and Corvin’s registration as supervised residents. Henry agreed to discuss options with them if they were willing to come forward, leaving Alexei to relay the offer.

• Henry met Alexei at Bad Weather after secretly photographing bartender Desmond Miles for William Miles.
• Alexei asked Henry whether he could handle the risk of guaranteeing Selene and Corvin’s registration.
• Henry explained that registration carried serious risks for guarantors and asked whether Selene and Corvin themselves wanted to enter human society under supervision.
• Alexei said Michael wanted to return to human society, while Selene mainly wanted to survive and was indifferent to humans.
• Henry offered to speak with Selene and Corvin and present them with several options, and Alexei agreed to pass along the message.

Black Super explained why Selene and Michael Corvin had to register with the government and remain under his protection: he feared their abilities could enable an alliance between Vampires and human elites that would enslave humanity. He insisted he could keep them alive, but only if they accepted the costs of his offer.

• Selene and Michael Corvin met Black Super in a rundown Hell's Kitchen apartment after fleeing increasingly aggressive operations against Vampires and Werewolves in New York.
• Michael asked what Black Super intended to do, and Black Super told them to follow his rules and register with the government to obtain legal identities.
• Selene questioned whether they could leave the United States, and Black Super explained that he trusted human nature more than the old man's prophecy.
• Black Super warned that powerful humans might accept immortality and help Vampires turn ordinary people into livestock rather than fight a war.
• Michael realized Black Super might eventually kill them, but Black Super said he had always intended to keep them alive if they accepted the benefits and costs of his offer.

Black Super challenged Michael Corvin to prove he could withstand a finger flick, then laid out conditions for protecting Selene and Michael. Selene asked what he wanted in return, and he offered legal identities and food in exchange for restrictions on their community and staying near him.

• Black Super denied wanting to exploit Selene and Michael, then challenged Michael to withstand one forehead flick in his strongest form.
• Michael transformed and took Black Super’s flick, landing back in his original spot before collapsing unconscious.
• Selene fed Michael her blood, and Black Super told her to trust Alexei’s introductions or seek help elsewhere.
• Black Super offered to secure legal identities and food for Selene and Michael, forbade them from creating new Vampires or Werewolves, and asked them to stay near him.
• Selene accepted the need to discuss his three conditions, while Alexei was moved by Black Super’s consideration.

Alexei hoped to recruit Selene for her ability to extract memories from blood, while Black Super arranged to make contact with the NYPD rather than S.H.I.E.L.D. After Black Super left, Alexei tried to reassure Selene and Michael Corvin, leaving Michael to consider whether he could trust anyone in a frightening world.

• Selene agreed to persuade Michael Corvin to work with Black Super once he woke, and Black Super said he would contact them after making arrangements.
• Black Super advised Alexei to avoid S.H.I.E.L.D. because spy organizations were rife with double agents, though he admitted he had no evidence against anyone there.
• Alexei told Selene that Black Super was unlikely to exploit her bloodline, pointing out that he showed little interest even in Alexei's Super-Soldier Serum.
• Michael Corvin woke and complained that Black Super had left, while Alexei urged him not to reject help and to learn to protect himself.

Black Super secretly met with George Stacy to ask him to spare Michael Corvin and Selene, explaining that they wanted ordinary lives and would not create bloodlines. He left Stacy with Peggy Carter’s contact information so she could explain why the couple should be spared.

• Black Super monitored NYPD headquarters and learned that George Stacy was considering how to clear the remaining suspected Vampires and Werewolves from Hell’s Kitchen.
• Black Super appeared in Stacy’s office and confirmed that he had provided the Vampire map and thrown the hydrogen bomb.
• Black Super asked Stacy to spare Michael Corvin and Selene, saying they could live as Vampires only if they did not create bloodlines.
• Stacy challenged why the couple deserved to live when other newly transformed Vampires and Werewolves had been killed.
• Black Super gave Stacy Peggy Carter’s name and phone number, saying she could explain the reason to spare the couple, then vanished.

Selene and Michael Corvin met with Commissioner George Stacy to discuss their status and the conditions for becoming United States citizens. They read the official registration document, which barred them from creating new Vampire bloodlines, while Stacy remained uncertain about their unusual nature and importance.

• Selene and Michael Corvin passed the police station’s security screening and met Commissioner George Stacy at headquarters.
• Stacy explained that powerful figures were backing the couple and that the government feared Vampires might gain control of humanity.
• Stacy presented a legal document in English, Hungarian, and French that set out their citizenship terms and prohibited them from creating Vampire bloodlines except through natural reproduction.
• Michael read the Hungarian version while Selene read the French version, and Stacy recalled that a scanner had detected an abnormally low body temperature in one of them.

The United States quietly accepted two more names on the vampire whitelist, while agencies and Hydra factions hesitated to seize Selene and Michael Corvin for fear of provoking the mysterious figure behind the Vampire map. New York’s cleanup of Vampires and Werewolves ended swiftly, leaving its approach as a model for other cities still fighting.

• The NYPD added two names to the vampire whitelist, and officials across the United States remained outwardly silent despite their suspicions and competing interests.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. and the FBI had previously clashed over Blade, while the Los Angeles FBI’s purge exposed Vampire Faction members and left the agency unable to challenge S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Officials and Hydra heads weighed whether to seize Selene and Michael Corvin, but none wanted to be the first to provoke the mysterious figure believed to hold the Key of Immortality.
• Selene and Michael Corvin enjoyed a rare calm as the competing factions held back from taking them.
• New York City completed its cleanup of Vampires and Werewolves in a little over two months, while Europe and other parts of North America remained engulfed in conflict.

As cities, governments, and corporations mobilized against Vampires and Werewolves, the Kryptonian who had helped set events in motion rested at home. At the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson rejected Eddie Brock’s investigation of corporate collusion and urged him to pursue current stories about the war instead.

• The Octopus Unit, X-Men, Assassin Brotherhood, Mutual Aid Society, and corporations became involved in the worldwide fight against Vampires and Werewolves, while some groups sought to claim their former allies’ inheritances.
• The Kryptonian slept at his East 49th Street mansion as Katharine Hepburn and Kitty enjoyed the spring sunlight.
• J. Jonah Jameson rejected Eddie Brock’s report questioning whether corporations had colluded with Vampires, arguing that readers now wanted stories about the war.
• Jameson praised the Daily Bugle’s fabricated report that the military had bombarded a Vampire stronghold, which had been destroyed by a hydrogen bomb in reality.
• Jameson encouraged Eddie to find fresh stories about Vampires and Werewolves and dangled the promise of a Pulitzer Prize, prompting Eddie to consider what resources he could use.

Henry left the Vampire conflict behind while C-Sis maintained Vampire Map, and he helped Katharine Hepburn choose a wedding gift for Lorna Dane's aunt, Lorin. Katharine decided to send Lorin and her fiancé a Stark Studios home theater system, which Henry arranged to have delivered to Atlanta.

• Henry let C-Sis continue updating Vampire Map and treated the war outside New York as beyond his responsibility.
• Lorin Dane privately sent Lorna a wedding invitation, and Lorna passed it to Katharine Hepburn, who agreed to attend.
• Katharine asked Lorna what Lorin might need for her new home, but Lorna did not know.
• Skye suggested a server-grade computer, and Henry teased her before proposing a home theater system as the gift.
• Katharine approved Henry's suggestion, and he said he would contact Stark Studios to arrange delivery to Atlanta.

Henry visited Wanda Maximoff’s Emporium to buy incense for Katharine Hepburn and ask whether Wanda and her siblings would travel to Atlanta for Lorna’s aunt’s wedding. There, he met Meryl Streep and Mariah Carey, discussed his past at Stark Studios, and left without resolving the wedding question.

• Henry decided to visit Wanda’s Emporium because he worried about the Chaos Dimension door and wanted to ask whether Wanda and her siblings would accompany Lorna to the wedding.
• Henry found Wanda speaking with Meryl Streep and Mariah Carey and asked for Hepburn’s Quiet Fragrance incense.
• Meryl recognized Henry from his time as CEO of Stark Studios, and Henry explained that he was now serving as Katharine Hepburn’s personal assistant.
• Mariah asked whether Henry would return to Stark Studios, and he joked that Tony Stark treated him like a jealous ex.
• Mariah praised the Emporium’s incense and chatted with Henry, while he avoided helping her connect with Tony Stark.